84 SCENOPINID^E. 



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Body clothed with cinereous incumbent hairs. Epistoma slightly pro- 

 minent, with very few black hairs. Abdomen oval, as broad as the 

 thorax. 



Eare. (E. I.) 



FAMILY VIII. SCENOPINID^. 



SCENOPINID^:, Ct. ; Wtw. Muscides p., Lm. ; LI. Musddia p., Rfn. 



Scenopinii, Fin. ; Mg. ; Mq. ; Ztt. ; Ags. ; Lw. Scenopina, Rdn. 

 Epistoma brevissimum, latum, excavatum. Oculi rotundati. Ocelli 3 

 in vertice. Proboscis nuda, retracta. Palpi subcylindrici vel sub- 

 clavati. Antennae triarticulatae ; articulus tertius longus. Alae 

 venis validis ; venae longitudinales 2 in marginem interiorem alae 

 fere descendentes, 2 in ipso alae apice conjunctae ; vena interior mar- 

 ginalis nulla. 



Epistoma very short, broad, excavated. Eyes round. Ocelli 3, on 

 the crown. Proboscis bare, withdrawn. Palpi subcylindrical, sub- 

 clavate. Antennae 3-jointed; third joint long. Wings with robust 

 veins ; 4 longitudinal veins almost reaching the interior border, 2 of 

 them uniting at the tip of the wing ; no interior marginal vein. 



Genus I. SCENOPINUS. 



SCENOPINUS, LI. d. h. n. xxiv. (1803) ; Fb. ; Mg. ; Fin. ; Mq. ; Ct. ; 

 Ztt. Musca p., L. ; Spl. Nemotelus p., Dg. AtricJiia, Shr. 



Corpus parvum, elongato-lineare, subopacum, glabriusculum. Epistoma 

 minime prominens. Oculi nudi, linea media transversa purpurea 

 saepe notati. Proboscis occulta. Antennae subdeflexae, capite paullo 

 breviores ; articulus tertius elongatus, subcylindricus, truncatus. 

 Alae incumbentes. Areola discoidalis subretracta, basalis. Halteres 

 nudi. Abdomen depressum, segmentis 8. Pedes validi, nudi, 

 mutici. 



Body black, small, long, linear, smooth, rather dull. Head large, 

 semicircular, somewhat compressed in front. Peristoma small, round, 

 at a moderate distance beneath the base of the antennae. Proboscis 

 withdrawn, small, widened at the base. Labrum small, short, broad, 

 hollow, not more than half the length of the palpi. Lingua pointed, 

 very short, hardly one-third of the length of the labrum. Palpi large, 

 clavate, as long as the labium, pubescent, with a few bristles on the 

 inside. Labium short, broad, cylindrical, hollow above. Antennae 

 3-jointed, small, inserted near the middle of the face, porrect, slightly 

 deflexed, approximate at the base ; first and second joints small, some- 



